Comic 554 - Suggest a different message

Author Notes:

You're not sure how to interpret the message that's been delivered under the door. You start suggesting to Michelle a different sort of message, maybe to see if you can find out more about what this thing is.

Michelle takes a deep breath.

"We might wanna wait 'til the guys are back. I'm all about this stuff any other day, but somethin' about this don't feel right."

"Maybe
somebody
can
try
the door"

The voice from the other side of the door sounds like Michelle. The words all have uneven pitches, however--they don't flow together into the sound of a cohesive sentence. It sounds, rather, like words Michelle has said in front of the door are being imitated one at a time, pieced together to form the structure of a sentence. Each word has the same volume and tone it had in the original statements, not altered for the final sentence.

Like someone cut up audio of Michelle, and then edited it together later. It doesn't sound like it's coming from a device, though--it sounds like Michelle said it herself... on the opposite side of the door.

Michelle visibly jumps, glancing from side to side before staring at the door again.

"Oh HELL no, I am NOT about this... Blondie, you need to get me outta here."

.... Yeah bug out time. Get Michelle out of there.
Then see something about trying Hell as a password for the lock. Bad idea? maybe. But we should at least check to see if it works first.... through Fuse's code breaker program that is.

I doubt it. It's making things specifically of words she's already said-- it's mimicking her. If it were another Michelle, she'd be saying words properly, not stitching them together out of what she'd heard.

Well this makes things simpler, at least. Michelle can just *say* "friend or foe?" and the creature can answer. Although she's obviously distressed, maybe we should get her out of there and discuss this with folks before sending someone back.

I DO think we need to figure out what the hell is back there eventually, and the safest way to do that might just be to ask. But if Michelle is not a fan of that idea, I don't wanna make Michelle feel like we're putting her at risk.

Yyyyyeaaaah, I think we should maybe leave a nuclear bomb in Bunker C and close it off for good.
Get Michelle out of there, get gone, stay gone.
I wonder that it could imitate Jane or Fuse, though, since they've been in the room talking, too.

A bunch of research was done here using alien blood, right? So... what if they found a different alien, or anomalous creature a la SCP. One that could do the infinite fall thing. The double sided bunker door thing seems to be mostly a way to save space, or they just connected the system somehow through some doors they already had. Which might also be related to mr. mimic over there. The door being barricaded, though, especially on the other side... hm. My guess is that it removed the barricade... or was itself the barricade.